The Minister for Corporative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Mr Richard Baloyi in partnership with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), will be launching the signing of two Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Business Adopt a Municipality initiative with SANTAM and Eskom as follows:
Launch details:
Date: Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Time: 17h30 – 21h00
Venue: Old Assembly Restaurant, Parliament, Cape Town
The Business Adopt-a-Municipality (BAAM) seeks to foster a closer working relationship between government, private sector and State Owned Entities (SOEs) towards supporting vulnerable municipalities.
It seeks to encourage private companies to adopt a municipality, enter into a MoU and together develop an implementation plan to assist such a municipality to improve infrastructure development, deal with governance challenges and address issues of local economic development (LED) while at the same time contributing to job creation and provision of critical skills.
Media is to join the panel as they:
- unpack the initiative of BAAM
- List the Municipalities that will be adopted and their challenges
- The kind of support that the municipalities receive, and
- The reasons on choosing those Municipalities
For further information and request for interviews please contact:
Dr Nghamula Nkuna
Cell: 076 227 5907
